While searching for English teaching & learning sites, I found that some of them are members only; that means you have to join the members or to pay for a course. If you are not a member, you can only enjoy a little part of the web resources. But it’s a little different that it argues that you can get college English credits after finishing the course.

—” I think this website is very useful and interesting for the teacher who wants to teach English in Taiwan. No matter you are a foreign or Taiwanese teacher, you can get more and more different experiences of teaching from the author’s point of view. Many American people want to come here for teaching English but they do not know there are some difficulties and the cultural difference to affect the teaching ways ideas. He points out this phenomenon and provides his valuable observation for those people. From the website we can see gain the various samples and comprehend their feelings. What is “Taiwan” to a foreigner’s eye on earth? How about the situation of teaching English in Taiwan?

Almost every ESL website make mention of this site. This site is highly valued by most people. It is easy to navigate, you’ll never get lost in this website. Since this website is already on Teacher’s list, so there is no need to introduce this site. (I really enjoy learning from “the tip of the day”.)

BBC is famous in UK. This website provides lots of information of education and language learning. In BBC world service, you can view the web pages in traditional Chinese, so it’s convenient for beginners. I once found a sub-website of tweenies in BBC learning homepage (under the “school” category), which is very useful for Teaching English to children. Education Web Guide listed out all key words of education, so you can fetch the information you want by one easy click of the mouse.

This site provides many interesting activities for teaching children, like chants, finger plays, games, tongue twisters and some teaching tips. The structure of this site is simple; so you can get the information you want easily and never get tired of this site.. The most important of all, you won’t have the fear of receiving too much information.

This is a sub-website from New York Times. It updated daily and list out great resources for teachers, students and parents. Resources for teacher include Daily Lesson Plan, Lesson Plan Archive, News Snapshot, Crossword Puzzle, Affiliate Program, Advisory Board, Quote of the Day, Campus Web lines, Education News, Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher Resources, Classroom Subscriptions. “News summaries” and “On this day in history” are convenient and interesting information for teachers.

This site supplies as many games in English teaching as possible. Most games are complete including their aims, students’ level, time, materials needed, and what background knowledge the students need. They cover all forms of language acquisition, but specifically target oral communication. You might even find something here that you like doing! One thing almost all of these activities have in common is that they are designed to get the students up out of their seats and communicating using English.

The games in this website are divided into 3 parts, games for vocabulary practice, conversation games, and music games. This site is one of the fewest sites supporting games full with diagrams and pictures. The descriptions for the games are by step to step and we teachers can easily understand and demonstrate. This site also tells us games are used to provide kids or adolescents extra motivation to learn the target language with their peers. But a game is not for sake of games but for giving students more opportunities to practice target language.

There is no denying that each name for every game supported here is the most fascinating I’ve ever seen. For example, $100,000 Pyramid, Mission Impossible, Crazy Word Chains, Dice of Fortune, etc. I think students, especially kids or adolescents, will draw their attentions to the games at the first sight. Although some games just want students practice again and again, they have already achieved the desired effect, that is, learning with fun.

As you can see from the address for this website, people can “post” their ideas not only ideas for games and anything beneficial to our English teaching. Anything to be posted has to present what’s the subject, how’s the students’ level, and what you call for the game or activity. Some people even post their materials needed for the game. For me, though this site put the description of games into words that I sometimes get loss, I still can see what the other teacher’s ideas and experiences helpful for my teaching.

Most of games this site supports are samples from a book, Edutainment How to Teach English with Fun and Games. And these samples still work especially for the level of beginners. Not only they are easy to perform for teacher but comprehensible for students.